The Broadhurst: Watch Ed Wynn Win Wide Laughter
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
The Broadhurst: Watch Ed Wynn Win Wide Laughter By Joseph T. Shipley This Week on the Stage "THE PERFECT FdOL" "BOYS AN D GIRLS TOGETHER." Ed Wpnn presents himself and a large company. At the...
...From tense expectations, to the loosening of laughter, your abdominal muscles get more exercise than if you tipped over a hundred times while (as "the perfect fool" would say) you don't touch your knees and bend the floor...
...Friday afternoon, Oct...
...Enigma" Variations, El-gar...
...Like playing the piano...
...showing their cold ferocity — called by them, efficiency—as they attacked Poland...
...THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED" AT MUSIC HALL Bringing the late Sidney Howard's Pulitzer Prize play of 1925 to the screen for the first time, "They-Knew What They Wanted," with Carole Lombard and Charles Laughton in the leading roles, is now .in its world premiere showing at the Radio City Music Hall...
...That is, he-is the funniest of contemporary zanies...
...Thursday evening, Oct...
...The three pageant-dances that made up the major portion of the program were varied and effective...
...62 West 52nd St., has been postponed until the end of the month...
...the stage hands object, and as^they must always be obeyed, the curtain goes down...
...ROXY HOLDS BILL Deanna Durbin's newest starring film...
...There's a wild Apache dance, too, after some droll tumbling by Dot and Dick Rimy...
...Dot is perhaps the fattest tumbler on two hands...
...1. The jokes are all clean...
...The procession of presidents: Wilson, Hoover, FDR...
...Along with a special ticket for many of the best features of the World's Fair comes one -more chance to see the colorful pageant "I Hear America Singing^ at 7:30 p. m. at the Court of Peace, on Tuesday, October 15...
...how they made war and peace...
...Overture, "Carnival," Dvorak...
...Sunday afternoon, Oct...
...Louis Hayward and Maureen O'Hara...
...there isn't— like the bleached blonde he won't have — there isn't an off-color story all the evening...
...Without a word, while the jugglers are at their wildest, Indian clubs flying from sixteen nimble hands, Ed Wynn comes in with a ladder, and climbs it just in time to catch a single club...
...CLUB WAIKIKI TO OPEN SOON Due to extensive alterations employing decorative materials imported by Clipper plane directly from the Hawaiian Islands and much more elaborate than originally planned, the opening of the Club Waikiki...
...Not all at the same time, however...
...1 in C minor, Kalinnikow...
...The Franklin D. Roosevelt Way...
...HEAR AMERICA SISG-IXG...
...HAVANA-MADRID'S NEW SHOW, "TROPICANA" With the opening on October 17, next Thursday, of the new-fall show, "Tropicana," owners Lopez and Ferrer of the Havana-Madrid promise their patrons an unusually lavish night-club extravaganza...
...Dance," starring Lucille Ball...
...With the arrival in New York of Andy Iona and his Islanders from Hollywood this week, rehearsals of the colorful Hawaiian floor show are now under way...
...her operatic burlesques of the evening's first song, "Love Is Liable to Catch On," should make Wagner wag his head beneath the sod...
...The Roxy stage presentation headlining Milt Herth's recording trio, is also being held for a second w-ppk...
...Three things about this "unusual" show are unusual...
...is this a racial matter in the union ? I cannot name that lovely lass who was far the best of the special dancers in the feature number...
...The Ramparts We Watch" consists of two parts, related but quite diqerent...
...Isabelle Tropp-Gresser, National President of the organization, will preside...
...Boys and Girls Together" and men and women too, will see Ed Wynn and ripple and ripple with laughu-r until they create . a tidal wave of laughter on Broadway...
...Or drawing costumes from pieces of cloth, upon the living (and beautiful...
...At Madison Square, Garden...
...And as he is on the stage most of the time, you are in a constant sthr...
...Concerto for two pianos and orchestra, Babin...
...To show how unusual his show is, Ed Wynn shows us a lot of numbers as they might be in other shows...
...their dances, though somewhat unimaginative and repetitive, are excellently drilled and pleasantly costumed...
...FOR F.D.R...
...Spring Parade," is now in its second week at the Roxy Theatre...
...Last Saturday matinee and evening the I.L.G.W.U...
...and the De Marcos do some excellent dancing...
...2 in D major, Sibelius...
...13, at 3: Overture to "Egmont," -Beethoven...
...Girl...
...Sunday afternoon, Oct...
...Jane Pickens has both charm and a rich voice...
...2, Brahms...
...A large orchestra and choral group played and sang several selections, with skill and enthusiasm, for the benefit of the New York Fund, and in illustration of the splendid work in the educational aspect of the I.L.G.W.U...
...Many of them have truly effective settings, too, like the flowering cactus field for Jane Pickens' song 'The Latin in Me...
...At the Broadhurst...
...He doesn't know whether to drape, drip, or droop that flowing sleeve...
...the doomed but far-reaching emphasis of Sacco and Vanzetti...
...The aim of the membership drive will be te get each member to induce five more women to join, so that a batallion of 25.000 will be actively enlisted in the work of the organization...
...3. Ed Wynn...
...One part is a photographic portrayal of Nazis in the present war...
...The powerfully dramatic story of a lovable Latin grape-rancher who falls in love w-ith a waitress has been adapted for films by Robert Ardrey, young playwright whose "Thunder Rock" was presented by the Group Theatre last season and is now the reigning hit of the London stage...
...Over 500 women of the local chapters are expected to attend this rally which will be held on Tuesday afternoon, October 15, at the Hotel Astor, 44th St...
...THEATRES "The Ramparts we Watch...
...Symphony in C major, Bizet...
...17, at 8:45...
...Combining scenic drops, movies, drama, and dancing, this colorful and swift-moving pageant shows the gradual gains of labor, from the freeing of (the slaves to the New Deal...
...Pageant and Concert hi/ Utc ivorkeis of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union...
...Part two of the program was a wide survey of the nation's growth, starting with Walt Whitman's words, "I Hear America Singing...
...Vachel Lindsay's poem, "The Congo," recited in an overdrawn and sentimental manner by the white soloist, was redeemed by the rouse of the Negro voices and the stir of the Negro dancers, evoking the jungle conflict with religion...
...Symphony No...
...This is a delightful innovation we should like to see extended...
...Thursday evening, Oct...
...Altgeld of Illinois is there, Gompers, Debs...
...On a laughrweary but delighted audience...
...24 at 8:45...
...The new production which was conceived, designed and directed by the redoubtable Sergio Orta, will feature such well-known Latin-American stars as Rosita Ortega, Broadway's leading exponent of the Spanish Dance, Estela and Papo, the royalty of rhumba, Arturo Cor-tez, Virginia Ramos, Zedra de la Conde, Pedrito and Chino, and the popular orchestras of Oscar de la Rosa and Juanito Sanabria, plus the new bevy of Latin-American glamour senor-itas...
...25, at 2:30: Soloists—Vitya Vronsky and Victor Babin, pianists...
...It certainly is the funniest...
...he is unique...
...Also effective, in quite another mood, was the revision of Rome's song, "Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones," into an election piece...
...Meyer London's quiet but significant work in Congress...
...All are cooperating in having a good time, in developing their talents, in helping the cause of labor...
...Symphony in D major No...
...Ed Wynn calls -this the most unusual show Broadway has seen in a long time...
...When the Apache dancers have just committed manslaughter, mayhem, and scalping, Ed Wynn remarks: "A lovely thing, the old-fashioned waltz...
...Friday afternoon, Oct 18, at 2:30: Chaconne in G minor from sixth of Purcell's "Ten Sonatas for Four Parts," Purcell-Barbirolli...
...Napua, formerly a featured dancer with Ray Kinney and his Aloha Maids at "Halt zapoppin" and the Hotel _Ljk-ington's Hawaiian Room, ffl|t ¦the star performer of JMf...
...Some of the verbal play is even more fantastic...
...7 in A major, Beethoven...
...The other .part of "The Ramparts" focuses attention on the story of the American people during the fateful years between 1914 and 1918...
...activity...
...The Six Willys are as nifty jugglers as can sling plates around...
...20, at 3: Overture to "Euryanthe," Weber...
...In other words, 'even without Ed Wynn, there's a lot of show...
...I The fact that I cannot, illustrates another good feature of this work of the I.L.G.W.U...
...pretative hulas supportedJjHBj "South Sea SweetheaJHLa^t chorus of comely Island haiet...
...When all the dancers came along, only two or three were light-haired...
...Walter Long—the sailor to whom her grandmamma owes that Latin strain—is an excellent tapper...
...He is not only unusual...
...Manhattan, Bronx and Westchester Theatres, today on a twin bill that includes "Dance...
...he offers the bride the usual bouquet—unless she prefers Four Roses...
...unique not only because of its totally different story and technique but because it incorporates sequences from the confiscated Nazi terror film, "Baptism of Fire," opens at R.K.O...
...2. The chorus girls are all beautiful and —there aren't any chorus boys...
...Then his apparatus, his actions, and his words are equally nonsensical...
...Hell sit, silent, dark on the stage, while the spotlight holds the mandolin player...
...there is a truly moving surge of trapped workers in the flames of the Triangle fire...
...models...
...And again...
...Horace It evallen, member of the gltdJate faculty of the New School «t Social Research, will be the guest speaker...
...At present the Women's American Ort has 40 active chapters throughout the United States and Canada Its membership now is in excess of 5,000...
...Amid those skits such as "other shows" might offer, comes goodly store...
...he'll keep up a running fire of quick comment, often with sly political pricks, while doing something truly skillful...
...Symphony in C major, Bizet...
...Then Ed Wynn is a complete show, all by himself.| He's around all the time...
...The "Wynnsome dancing girls" are as beautiful -a chorus as one wants to befhold...
...Having got these out of the way, he's ready to put on his own novelties.l But by then it's 11:25...
...WOMEN'S AMERICAN OUT STARTS DRIVE FOR MORE MEMBERS In its work of reorientating the refugee Pews of Europe into channels of practical activities so that they may be better assimilated into the countries to which they migrate, the Women's American Ort is calling a meeting of all its members in the New York and New- Jersey Chapters...
...spread a colorful concert and pageant before large audiences at Madison Square Garden...
...RAMPARTS WJPWATCH" AT R.K.O...
...Philharmonic-Symphony Programs AT CARNEGIE HALL...
...what they thought and did...
...Symphony No...
...One interesting indication of the difference between this and the usual Broadway group is the fact that' among all its women, that chorus did not have a single blonde...
...Most of the time he plays a more prominent •part...
...It was originally produced to show other countries what vwould happen to them if they resisted Hitler...
...While Ed Wynn is on the stage, merriment explodes (among other things...
...Symphony No...
...I wondered how the prosperous-looking man in the seat behind me could go on wearing his Willkie button...
...John Barbirolli, Conductor...
...The Broadhurst: Watch Ed Wynn Win Wide Laughter By Joseph T. Shipley This Week on the Stage "THE PERFECT FdOL" "BOYS AN D GIRLS TOGETHER...
...and Broadway, Crs...
...But Ed Wynn in the meantime spreads his hands in deprecation, or hesitates, looks in his hat for a hint, and smiles disarmingly—and you,'re laughing again...
...If you've missed this spectacle of labor's upward march, you can get it jri the season's biggest bargain at the Fair...
Vol. 23 • October 1940 • No. 41
